It's Valentine's Day!

Monday, February 12, 2018

Saint Valentine's Hook-In

By Dawna Mathew

On Monday, February 12, we celebrated Valentine’s Day by
dressing in red. Everyone who came to our Hook-In wearing red had a chance to
win one of several lovely door prizes. As you can see, we are a happy gang of
hookers!

Friday, January 26, 2018

Hooked On Patty Yoder

Sep 30, 2017 - Jan 21, 2018 Shelburne Museum

Wonderful trip down to
Vermont. We were fortunate to catch the last weekend of the Patty Yoder
Exhibition at the Shelburne Museum. What a talented lady and such a great loss
to our rug hooking community. Here you have some pictures!.

Friday, January 19, 2018

Oxford Punch Needle workshop with Sara Burghoff

By Dawna Matthew

On January 19th four of our members traveled down to
Vermont for a 1 day Oxford Punch Needle workshop with Sara Burghoff. We spent a
lovely day with Sara who is a Oxford Certified Instructor and the former owner
of Violet Jane Yarn. We did lots of punching, dyeing and laughing. A relaxing and
valuable learning experience!

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

2017: The 150th Anniversary of Canada and 375th Anniversary of Montreal

Special Show & Tell : Canada

On this Show & Tell, you can tour a selection of
rugs from our last Exhibition, held on September 2017 at Centennial Hall.

Canadian Flag 150

Mini-mats

By Carolyn Ells

These mini-mats acknowledge Canada’s
150th birthday and Montreal's 375th birthday, both celebrated in
2017. The white pine motif was added to Montreal’s flag in 2017 in
recognition of indigenous peoples who are part of the roots and life of the
city. Both miniatures are punch needle embroidery on weaver’s cloth. The
Canadian flag is made with cotton floss and the Montreal motif with
wool.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Happy Holidays!

Monday, December 11, 2017

A Festive Hook-in!

By Dawna Matthew

We celebrated the holidays at our last 2017 Hook-In on December 11th. Everyone was in a festive mood, gifts were exchanged and delicious goodies enjoyed. It was nice to see one of our new members, Ann, win a basket full of wool. This will help her stash grow!

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Show & Tell: Xmas!

Hooked Bags!

I received the beautiful red handle as a birthday gift from a dear friend and so it became my inspiration to hook a purse for it at a course I took in Ontario.

Original by Denise Morissette

Denise Morissette

This bag is an original design. It is made out of a discarded cotton knit skirt cut in No. 8.

Hooked by Denise Morissette

Denise Morissette

I have hooked the brown bag using a burlap bag I bought at Dollarama*, The stylized flower uses the different stitches learned in a workshop given by Lois Morris. New wool was used in No. 3 and 6 cuts.

* Dollar Store

Hooked by Carolyn Ells

Carolyn Ells

This purse was “made in a day” at a Green Mountain workshop in the fall 2016. It is perfect to use for errands when I take the car. For the hooking I used new hand-dyed wool on monk’s cloth.

On Monday, December 4th, we got together with our friends, The Martintown Wild and Woollies, and hosted International Rug Hooking Day at the St Mary’s Community in Williamstown, Ontario. What a wonderful day! We had 62 rug hookers attend with representatives from the following groups:

Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild

Brockville and Thousand Islands

Chateauguay Valley’s Rollicking Rug Hookers

Martintown Wild & Woolies

On Track II

Ottawa Olde Forge

Prescott Hoops and Hooks

St-Henri Rug Hookers

Plus 3 vendors:

Loretta Moore of Hooked on the Lake, with her rug hooking and needle punch supplies

Mitch from the Millinery at Cornerstone Farm, with his beautiful hand dyed yarn

The family from TreeHouse Creations, with the wonderful wooden decorations

The Millinery at Cornerstone Farm

Leslie Larson, our OHCG area 1 rep, gave a talk on the upcoming 2018 Annual, filling us in on what to look forward to.

Leslie Larson, from OHCG Area 1, talks to the audience

Laura Boszormeny showed us some tricks and techniques to help with the fish bowl projects which will be used as decoration at the Annual.

Fish Bowl Projects

Fish Bowl Projects

A hand quilted bed cover had been donated to the guild and it was raffled, raising over 100$, which was donated to the community centre. There were door prizes, delicious soups and yummy desserts enjoyed by all.

It was a truly rewarding day to see so many out sharing, renewing old friendships, making new ones and simply hooking together in one big group! Thanks to everyone who helped and participated.

Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild

Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild

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